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Most teachers to pay less into their pension under new plans

DfE launches consultation on cutting employee contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme across most salary bands

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Phillipson: Schools need ‘old-fashioned graft’ to stop absence ‘damage’

The education secretary will also use her speech at ASCL's annual conference to say she believes some schools are not doing enough to tackle attendance issues

Social media being ‘weaponised’ against schools and teachers

ASCL president tells conference that tech billionaires should be forced to protect pupils from the dangers of their technology

Northern Education Trust appoints new CEO

Jane Wilson will take over from Rob Tarn, who is leaving the 30-school MAT at the end of the month

Violence against support staff at ‘unacceptable’ level, says minister

Most school support staff in Scotland say it has 'become part of the job to expect violence', hear MSPs

SQA chief examiner: ‘We are working our backsides off to make things different’

'Bridging the gap' to schools and teachers will be essential for the SQA's successor body to succeed, says new chief examiner Donna Stewart in an exclusive interview

Two international school groups announce more acquisitions

International Schools Partnership boosts Brazilian presence while Inspired Education strengthens online school portfolio with US deal

Teacher pay should rise by more than 3%, say experts

Pay should then increase by more than 6% from 2026-27, according to the National Foundation for Educational Research

Sir Martyn: Inclusion must be ‘ingrained’ in school culture

Schools are not serving their communities if they off-roll or never take on disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils, warns Ofsted chief inspector

Gilruth: Attainment Challenge cash ‘plugging gaps in welfare state’

The power of the Scottish Attainment Challenge in closing the disadvantage gap in education has been ‘eroded’, says the education secretary, as she comes under fire

Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust appoints new chief executive

Sharon Mullins takes over from founder Anne Dellar, who is retiring in the summer

Ofsted appoints MAT chief as inclusion adviser

Watchdog says Mark Vickers will help to ensure that proposed changes to school inspection work well for pupils with SEND

Revealed: Which trusts received £16m of DfE support

DfE analysis of trust accounts also shows termination warning notices more than doubled in 2022-23

Ofsted inclusion plans lack focus on school admissions, MPs told

Leaders have to work 'against the tide' of the accountability system to promote a whole-school approach to inclusion, MPs also warned

Sir Hamid Patel appointed interim chair of Ofsted

The Star Academies chief will serve until the summer when a permanent appointment is expected to be made

The 28 signs of ‘school readiness’

Trusts and charities call on the government to support the new Starting Reception definition of school readiness

Worsening speech and language skills make teaching more difficult, study finds

Nearly half of primary teachers say more pupils are struggling to communicate at the expected level for their age

Teacher pension contributions to increase next month

The government has today laid a statutory instrument before Parliament that will make changes to contributions from 1 April

Gender gap in Year 9 maths at its widest

There is an 'urgent need' to find out why the gender gap in maths has re-emerged, says DfE report analysing findings from Timss international research

SQA investigates data breach after thousands of documents leaked online

SQA confirms 'unauthorised use of website-access credentials at a single SQA centre' but says this is 'not the result of a cyberattack'

Private school teachers taking second jobs to make ends meet

Poll by NEU teaching union also reveals that recruitment has been frozen as a result of VAT on independent school fees

Number of Scottish schools sharing a headteacher triples

Conservatives argue that in most cases shared headships are 'detrimental to schools and pupils'

Headteachers’ gender pay gap ‘has widened to a chasm’

On International Women’s Day, new data reveals that the gender pay gap for some school leaders is at its worst for 13 years

Foundation Apprenticeships offer ‘something for everyone’

More than £100 million funding to support Modern and Foundation Apprenticeships in 2025-26 has been confirmed by Scotland's education secretary

Government doing ‘too little, too slowly’ on mobile phones, MPs told

Ministers under fire over 'watered-down' second version of the Safer Phones Bill, which no longer includes consideration of a statutory mobile phone ban in schools